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- What’s New for the 25th of October: Some Autumnal Matters
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for 11th of October: Music reviews picked by Gary for you to consider, ‘Hotel California’ live by the Eagles for you to listen to, and a biography of the Eagles for you to read. So isn’t that enough for one edition here? I think so.
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Getting Ready for All Hallows Eve
- What’s New for the 27th of September: A tribute to Cape Breton music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: All The World’s A Stage
- What’s New for the 14th of September: books and music to see summer out
- What’s New for the 10th of September: It’s Definitely Late Summer!
- What’s New for the 30th of August: Dolly Pardon
- What’s New for the 16th of August: Deborah Grabien’s music criticism essays; new Americana and jazz, and some music for the Dog Days of Summer
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Strangeness
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- What’s New for the 26th of July: Witches in fiction, both books and film; an Americana reissue and some music on a smoky theme
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
Category Archives: Music
Various artists’ Rough Guide to the Cuban Music Story
Q. Does the world really need yet another “various artists” collection of Cuban music? A. If it’s as good as this one, yes. I didn’t expect to like this, one of dozens of similar CDs to hit the market since … Continue reading
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Tagged Cuban music, world music
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Bo Ramsey’s In the Weeds
Robert Franklin “Bo” Ramsey is one of those musicians better known among his peers than among the public. Springing from the same corn-fed Iowa fields as his sometime songwriting partner Greg Brown, he plays a gritty heartland style of blues, … Continue reading
Toshi Reagon’s Toshi
Toshi Reagon‘s second record for Razor & Tie (she’s been recording since 1990 on a variety of labels) is a mix of blues, roots, folk and rock. Reagon, whose parents were both members of the 1960s’ protest supergroup The Freedom … Continue reading
The Handsome Family’s Twilight, and Smothered and Covered
“So long to my dog Snickers, who ate Christmas tinsel So long to Mr. Whiskers, who jumped out of a window And to the family of gerbils who chewed out of their cage and the little brown rabbit I ran … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music
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Doc Watson and Frosty Morn’s Round the Table Again
Doc Watson is indeed “a legend,” as he is introduced at the beginning of this live disc. With its second live Watson release in as many years, Sugar Hill has bookended the extraordinary career of this blind guitarist and singer … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana music, Bluegrass music
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Kelly Joe Phelps’s Sky Like a Broken Clock and Beggar’s Oil EP
Kelly Joe Phelps is a Washington State native who started his musical career as a jazz guitarist and bassist. Sky Like a Broken Clock is his fourth as an acoustic blues player (his third for Ryko), and his first with … Continue reading
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Gary Myrick’s Waltz of the Scarecrow King
Gary Myrick, a Texan who has been living in Southern California for many years, has been making music for a long time. He was in his first band at the age of 18, and made his first album in 1980. … Continue reading
Little Pink’s Cul-de-Sac Cowgirl
Little Pink is yet another band out of the Washington, D.C., alternative country scene, and my favorite so far. Little Pink — basically singer-songwriter Mary Battiata and a somewhat shifting cast of backup musicians — had the most intriguing track … Continue reading
Darryl Purpose’s A Crooked Line
Darryl Purpose is the best kind of singer-songwriter: one who has lived a lot of life before he started writing songs about it. On A Crooked Line, his fourth CD, he sings his songs of America and Americans, the way … Continue reading
Honky Tonk Confidential’s Your Trailer or Mine
Honky Tonk Confidential is Washington, D.C.’s answer to the Austin Lounge Lizards. This five-piece combo draws on various forms of country music to make erudite, humorous musical commentary on modern American life, both inside and outside the Beltway. Your Trailer … Continue reading
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